Experience

M1

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Software Engineer

  • Mar 2022 - Present

  - Building Financial Distributed Systems in Akka and Lagom



Peloton Interactive

• United States
• Health, Wellness & Fitness
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Engineer III

  • Nov 2021 - Feb 2022

  - Wrote and presented an architectural design document to transform the management and coordination of AWS EMR clusters. - Developed tooling for running EMR clusters. - Participated in Data Platform roadmap planning.



InformaticsIQ, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Data Engineer

  • May 2021 - Nov 2021

  - Led a team enabling new streaming analytics features with potential $100M revenue impact. - One on one training about CQRS and Event Sourcing with team members. - Conducted code reviews for junior engineers. - Led production releases and coordinated support for on-call staff. - Gathered business requirements from key stakeholders, explored problem space with other engineers and customers, and designed an API specification that satisfied the requirements. - Architected and… Show more - Led a team enabling new streaming analytics features with potential $100M revenue impact. - One on one training about CQRS and Event Sourcing with team members. - Conducted code reviews for junior engineers. - Led production releases and coordinated support for on-call staff. - Gathered business requirements from key stakeholders, explored problem space with other engineers and customers, and designed an API specification that satisfied the requirements. - Architected and designed data solutions to meet business requirements. - Interviewed potential Data Engineer job candidates.

• Data Engineer

  • Mar 2019 - May 2021

  - Delivered complex near real-time aggregates to tens of thousands worldwide users using Akka and Domain Driven Design; designed persistent Actors, implemented Kafka event streaming, crafted complex Solr aggregates over time series data while writing unit tests to validate business requirements. - Created monitoring module with plugin architecture for arbitrary alerting and notifications utilizing Akka, Cassandra, and Docker for testing. - Oversaw intern implementing features for… Show more - Delivered complex near real-time aggregates to tens of thousands worldwide users using Akka and Domain Driven Design; designed persistent Actors, implemented Kafka event streaming, crafted complex Solr aggregates over time series data while writing unit tests to validate business requirements. - Created monitoring module with plugin architecture for arbitrary alerting and notifications utilizing Akka, Cassandra, and Docker for testing. - Oversaw intern implementing features for monitoring module. - Developed CLI tool using Scala for internal Spark streaming application code generation.



Invenergy

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Software Developer

  • Jul 2017 - Sep 2017

  Greater Chicago Area - Developed automation software using Python for scanning and keeping track of company-owned networked Polycom phones. - Developed automation software using Python to upgrade firmware of networked Polycom phones. - Developed GUI for automation software. - Compiled automation software to a Windows Application. - Developed automation tool in Python to assist in migrating employee data to HR database.



Thirdwave, LLC

• United States
• Information Technology & Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Software Development Intern

  • Nov 2016 - Jun 2017

  Greater Chicago Area - Developed a customized search tool in a Ruby on Rails application utilizing ElasticSearch. - Developed Extract/Transform/Load Ruby scripts to import legacy web content to Liferay. - Developed a web scraper in Ruby to import legacy content into LifeRay. - Wrote a Java portlet for LifeRay to invoke an API to populate LoopNet listings on a LifeRay CMS. - Migrated Mercurial and SVN repositories seamlessly to Git



Air Payments (Project Air)

• Financial Services

• CTO/Co-Founder

  • Sep 2013 - Aug 2016

  Chicago, IL. - Developed software prototype to combat interchange fees using C++ and Python. - Facilitated initial $25,000 investment. http://www.air-payments.com



LuminAID

• United States
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Front-end Web Developer

  • May 2014 - Dec 2014

  Chicago, IL - Redeveloped the site front end and site layout. - Implemented a store locator. - Developed a responsive mobile design for the website.



Wasoko

• Kenya
• Internet Marketplace Platforms
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Software Developer

  • Apr 2014 - Sep 2014

  Chicago, IL - Implemented the back-end administrator and client panel for Sokowatch’s clients. - Worked in JavaScript, HAML(HTML), SASS(CSS), and Ruby on Rails. - Conducted Test Driven Development (TDD).



UChicagoTech | The University of Chicago

• Innovation Fund Associate

  • Nov 2013 - May 2014

  Chicago, IL - Performed due diligence analysis on companies in CIE portfolio. - Created deal overview templates for companies in the CIE portfolio - Briefed the investors on the analysis results in investment meetings after the CEO pitch.



Invenergy

• United States
• Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Intern

  • Jun 2009 - Sep 2013

  Greater Chicago Area - Integrated employee's 3 digit company ID number and personal information into a new HR database. - Facilitated IT orders in the Invenergy IT Help-desk panel. - Designed a website for a retail property owned by the company. - Conducted accounting work in Solomon, a database used to pay invoices. - Performed general maintenance on generator, yaw deck, and hub of multiple 200ft. wind turbines. - Analyzed contract agreements for land properties in Microsoft Office Word and Excel.



Argonne National Laboratory

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Data Intern

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  Lemont - Managed an Argonne-developed software model to analyze the effect of electric car usage on the US electric grid system.